Emily Dow, Design Studio Executive and Caitlin Krasovic, Senior Architect, Walt Disney Imagineering will speak at greenloop, online 25-26 April.
The Walt Disney Company has extended its ambitious environmental reporting goals to include Scope 3 emissions. The 2030 Environmental Goals White Paper was updated in December 2022 to include figures for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions for 2019. The document discusses the need to involve suppliers to measure and meet Science-Based Targets.
Walt Disney Imagineering’s sustainability leaders
Emily Dow is the Design Studio executive for Walt Disney Imagineering and the co-leader of the global Design & Delivery Studio, where she leads the interdisciplinary design team who creates the built worlds of Disney’s theme parks, resorts, and cruise ships.
She is also lead sustainability champion at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Emily’s team includes 147 disciplines, including Master Planning, Sustainability, Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Graphic Design, and Theme Lighting Design. Before holding this position, Emily was the global leader of design strategy for Design and Planning Studio and prior to this she was a senior design manager for the Shanghai Disney Resort project.
Caitlin Krasovic is a Senior Architect at Walt Disney Imagineering where she is currently focusing on Sustainable Design and integrating The Walt Disney Company’s 2030 Environmental Goals to Imagineering’s global portfolio of projects.
After an internship at Disneyland Resort, Caitlin joined Imagineering in 2018 where she partnered on leading the emerging professionals within the Architecture Studio.
Speaking at greenloop in 2021, Emily talked about how WDI is embedding sustainability into its processes, with a future forward design mindset. In 2022, Emily and Caitlin discussed how Walt Disney Imagineering putting environmental goals into action in practice.
At greenloop this year Emily and Caitlin will talk about Scope 3 emissions, measurement and targets, as well as updating us on recent projects and initiatives. The session starts at 4pm BST, 25 April.
What are Scope 3 emissions?
Company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fall into three categories: Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3.
Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from operations and vehicle fuel consumption. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased electricity.
Scope 3 includes all other indirect sources of emissions that are within a company’s value chain. In order to measure them you need to understand the emissions of your suppliers of goods and services, materials, transport.
Whereas Carbon Neutral status only requires the reduction and offset of Scope 1 and 2 emissions, Net Zero and Science-Based Targets cover Scope 1,2 and 3 emissions.
80% of suppliers by 2027 …
Although this may sound very technical and dry, this really matters for any company that wants to work with Disney as a supplier.
It’s not clear from the White Paper exactly which supplies will be subject to their specific reduction targets, but Disney does speak extensively of supplier engagement:
“We commit that 80% of our suppliers, measured by emissions, will have Science-Based targets, as defined by the SBTi, by fiscal year 2027, within the following Scope 3 categories:
– Specific franchises related to licensed consumer products and
Tokyo Disney Resort;
– Specific purchased goods and services related to our external services; and
– Specific upstream transportation and distribution related to
our streaming business.”
Disney is looking to collaborate with suppliers to help them measure and reduce emissions. It seems clear that suppliers who are already doing this will be at a competitive advantage:
“We will collaborate with our suppliers, contractors and licensees to help them build capacity to set their own emissions reduction targets … Additionally, we will focus our attention on industry collaborations, active engagement with our suppliers and partners, and investments in innovative strategies for emissions reductions.”
Why you should attend greenloop?
Find out more about Disney’s environmental strategy and initiatives at greenloop.
Emily Dow, Design Studio Executive with Walt Disney Imagineering at greenloop 2021When it comes to solving really big challenges, like how do we build sustainable theme parks, resorts and cruise ships around the world, it takes all of us and all of these different industries coming together.
And that’s what’s great about greenloop … our collaboration is key to really think about how we build sustainable themed entertainment experiences.
greenloop aims to connect sustainability leaders from across the attractions industry to enable us to move more quickly towards a more sustainable future.
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